At
the end of November, countless production experts met at the
"Microprecision in focus" mav specialist forum at CHIRON to find out
about trends and challenges in precision machining. To address the requirements
of the individual industries in even more detail, a watch/jewelry day was held
for the first time, alongside the established medical engineering colloquium.
Globalization, demographic change, dynamic technology development, digitalization and permanent innovations: These megatrends have wide-reaching implications for production companies too. And micromechanics is no exception. Both in the watch/jewelry industry and in medical engineering, the objective is to achieve more flexible production with maximum quality at reduced costs.
On both days, the specialist forum focused on specific machining requirements. In his key note speech, for example, Salvatore Ragusa, Managing Director of the Swiss precision engineering company Concept CNC Design, reported on the filigree challenges in the production of watch face overlays. For medical engineers, there were presentations on flexible, intelligent production of instruments and implants, with digitalization and additive manufacturing being important topics.
Overall, industry experts found out first-hand about current trends and solutions throughout the process chain. In addition to the host, CHIRON, other leading manufacturers of machining centers, tools and peripheral devices gave concentrated presentations of their products and services for micromechanics: C. Hafner, Concept CNC Design, Espi, Haas Schleifmaschinen, HB Microtec, Hexagon, Louis Belet, Marquardt, Motorex, Solidcam, Stäubli, Tornos, Trumpf and Yerly. For anyone who wasn't able to attend in Tuttlingen on 27th-28th November, here is the conference reader where you can read all of the presentations.
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